Formula One Management collates revenues from hosting fees, media rights and other streams such as trackside sponsorship and hospitality. The 2015 total was $965m and this will be distributed across 10 teams through nine monthly payments from April with a final “check” payment – when definitive revenues have been calculated – early in 2017. The

When asked if his approach to the race weekend will be different because his team-mate will be different, Button said: “Yeah. He has less experience in this car but it’s good having another opinion. Sometimes it’s nice having a third opinion on the car and the way it feels. When Fernando explains how his car

Trouble for Magnussen at the start of the grand prix left the Dane with a puncture and in need of a trip into the pits for new tyres. That dropped him a full lap behind the rest of the field, however, a red flag later in the grand prix meant he was able to unlap

The German rookie made a good start in Melbourne and ran an impressive 14th early on before starting to seriously struggle with tyre degradation. “The start was great,” he told Motorsport.com. “I was a bit surprised about my start, because it was my first in F1, but it was amazing. I improved six or seven

Tensions between the pair erupted once again at the Australian Grand Prix when Verstappen was left furious about team strategy and Sainz refusing to follow orders to let him past. But Sainz has downplayed matters, and said that the team had come to the conclusion that he was right not to move aside for his

Following an outcry over the farcical end to Q3 in Australia, when there were no cars on track in the closing minutes of the session, F1 teams met on Sunday morning and agreed to revert to the old qualifying system for the Bahrain Grand Prix. That move still needs to go back through the Strategy

Daniel Ricciardo’s great drive to fourth at the Australian Grand Prix was somewhat overlooked in the aftermath of a race that included its fair share of controversy and drama – but he says he wasn’t far off Mercedes and Ferrari in some parts of… Ricciardo also set the fastest lap, helped by being the last

On the eve of his home grand prix in Melbourne, Ricciardo admits that RBR is unlikely to be any sort of match for Mercedes and Ferrari in the early campaign. And while that effectively rules him out of the title race, the Australian says Red Bull is targeting the second half of the season as an opportunity to

he Silverstone-based outfit plans for some ambitious upgrades for its car in Bahrain and Spain that it hopes will allow it to challenge Williams and Red Bull in the chasing pack behind Mercedes and Ferrari. But Perez believes that until that new package arrives, things will be more difficult – which is why he says